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It's kind of amazing we're not seeing more of this already. It's a trivial application of the tech. We've already achieved a culture where the more batty someth
by svachalek 4y ago
It's kind of amazing we're not seeing more of this already. It's a trivial application of the tech. We've already achieved a culture where the more batty something is the more likely people are to believe it, and now we have an infinite, personalized quackery generator.
Without a massive cultural revolution putting the brakes on this, which I can't imagine coming from anywhere, I fear we're barreling into a future where nothing is true anymore, a hall of mirrors where the capacity to fake anything at all far surpasses anyone's ability to make sense of it.
- hosh 4y agoMacLuhan and others have already talked about this, from way back in the radio and TV generation. I don't say this to mean, "oh, and they were wrong because everything turned out OK" If anything, we have had generations that grew up with this dysfunction in a normalized way, and it took another advanced in tech to really see it again. (To take it further back into history, I think I now get what Cervantes was trying to say with the image of Don Quxiote tilting at windmills. It seemed so absurd, amusing, and quaint when I read it as a teen).
- pixl97 4y agoIf anything TV and radio presented a larger shared reality, even if it was one filled with falsehoods. What is culture but a shared set of values? What we are growing now is a system that can give each and every one of us our own reality, and if it succeeds, what of society?
- hosh 4y agoThere are some fascinating areas to explore those questions from the perspective of shamans, mystics, and yogis.